Slam Poetry in Chad

Identity Performance and Space in the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene

Public spaces where culture is co-constructed and performed by a community of people are rich sites for research on identity formation. This thesis explores the poetry slam as a space where poets and audiences co-construct and perform individual and group identities. From a social constructionist approach to identity formation and through the theories and methods of performance studies, the res...

Chad Outline

The model not only underpredicts civil war onsets, but it also had inconsistent success in its point predictions. It points to 1960-61 as the years Chad was most vulnerable to a civil war (over six percent probability for each of these years). Yet the first civil was onset was not until 1965 when the odds were a bit over one percent, about two-thirds the world average. Although the model does n...

Hominid revelations from Chad.

Chad Looney

Fluctuations in global petroleum prices can explain part of the variation in political violence in three African petrol states: Angola, Nigeria, and Algeria. As petrol states, all these countries have depended on imports of food and other basic commodities purchased with oil export receipts. Thus, when petrol prices and the economic performance of these countries fall, the states decrease impor...

Chad Vance

Truthmakers for Modal Truths: You could be going for a walk right now. This seems true—but what makes it true? Many have proposed that it is true in virtue of the existence of some possible world (beyond the actual world) where you are going for a walk now; or else, because there is some abstract, representational entity which represents you as going for a walk now. I think this is mistaken. I ...